广播电视英语短句 第 66 课：Sabah雨林-2

But he did not publish the book. Instead, in nineteen ninety-nine, he used his research for the book to create a Web site. 但是他并没有出版这本书。取而代之的是，他在1999年用书中的研究（内容）创建了一家网站。

The site is Mongabay.com. The name is spelled m-o-n-g-a-b-a-y. 网站是Mongabay.com，网站名字的拼写是m-o-n-g-a-b-a-y

Rhett Butler named the site for Nosy Mangabe, an island off Madagascar. Rhett Butler以位于马达加斯加的一个叫诺西曼嘎巴的小岛命名这个网站。

His purpose was to inform the public about tropical rainforests. But the subject widened. 他的目的是要告知公众关于热带雨林的信息。但是他的目标扩大了。

A former businessman, he became a respected writer of science and environmental stories. 曾经做过商人的他变成了一位受人尊敬的（写）科学与环境报道的作家。